elevators

thirty

CURATED

Facial Asymmetry

2017

Electronics

Shigeto - First Saturn Return

Shigeto - Silver Lining

Faking The Books

First track from the neat beats debut album: Cosmic Surgery

Graffiti on a Tuesday Night

[...] lightly explosive rhythmically, but with a somewhat dark
textural centre. The You Had Me At Hello trio sound great on their own, but the conceptual basis of these singles is pretty massive. It'd be great to have a jukebox full of them.
Byron Coley // The Wire (UK)

You Had Me At Hello - Waiting For Sunday

buy tape + digital nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com - also available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, Juno Download and more.

taken from Fia Fiell 'A Hair, A Heap' NM004

Debut release from Melbourne electronic composer Fia Fiell, aka Carolyn Schofield (No Creator). Schofield combines her profound practical and theoretical chops as a pianist/composer with a most modern and perceptive ear for stretching out the orbit of millennial electronic music constructs. This first effort was recorded in early 2014 and is comprised of heavily, if not wholly improvised arrangements - Schofield has an unnatural knack for wielding the hi-res vapour clouds which form and nebulize around uneasy chords and melodic cycles, perhaps conjuring a notion of childlike wonderment and trepidation in the face of an unmapped universe around us.

Fia Fiell 'A Hair, A Heap'

Building on the original sounds sculpted by Morrison, Tape Throb Records will look to release music which stems from the same nonconformity and desire to distort, blend, warp and innovate in the world of dance music. Now the platform has expanded from a bedroom in Derry to a recognised genre amongst those in the know the label will look to bring in more fledgling artists who share the same unconventional creative ethos and build Tape Throb from a niche sound to a movement. A movement that is at once soulful and punchy, warm but with a distinct sprinkling of fuck you.
Fittingly the first release scheduled for mid 2016 is a tape containing unreleased work by Buz Ludzha embracing a punk riddled jungle vibe punctuated with his signature warm distortion.
Watch this space.


Ruined By Blue

Falling Crush

Prime Unity

Taken from Elka—"Chants", out on cassette and digitally 27 May 2016.

Buy Tape: http://bit.ly/1X40Tpk
Buy Digital: http://bit.ly/1TFkBF5

Elka - BBX1999

Playlist and other information available at: http://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-79-eric-frye-with-guerino-mazzola/

FFFoxy Podcast #79: Eric Frye with Guerino Mazzola

From the producer's new album 'Clear,' out July 1 on Anòmia. 

LXV - L.K. Breaking

Artist: TOMAGA
Album: The Shape of the Dance

HITD 030
LP / CD / DL
 Release date: 19th September 2016
Released in partnership with Negative Days

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

All songs written and performed by Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen

TOMAGA - A Perspective With No End

@bookworms
@anomiaprod

Read more on THUMP: https://thump.vice.com/en_us/track/bookworms-standards-of-beauty-stream

Standards of Beauty

swamp_dos

On Small Differences in Sensation (LP / digital + 29 page booklet)

Written and produced by Eric Frye
Texts by Andrée Ehresmann, Mathias Béjean, Fernando Zalamea, and Inigo Wilkins.

Recorded at Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, Cambridge.
Anechoic chamber recordings at Orfield Laboratories, Minneapolis.
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

Vinyl / Digital / PDF - https://ericfrye.bandcamp.com/album/on-small-differences-in-sensation

On Small Differences in Sensation

Bandcamp

On Small Differences in Sensation (fragments)

Another track from Köhn's new album 'Kreis Plön', out on KRAAK, on the 9th of June. Pre-order at kraak.bandcamp.com.

Almost 20 years ago Jürgen De Blonde debuted on KRAAK with the nowadays unfindable and almost visionary album köhn 1. It was the starting point for a vital and wondrous exploration that lead him over paths of glitch, idm, shoe gaze, hypnagogic pop, improvised music, straight forward synth music, field recordings and kraut. 

In the middle of this ungraspable adventure through contemporary electronic music, Köhn stands as a genuine artist that stayed true to the curious spirit of the DIY knob twiddling and boggling boy he once was. 

KRAAK is proud to present his 7th album on KRAAK — Kreis Plön, which documents and envisions 20 years of exploring. It’s an album that is about a fusion of the past and the future, of separation and reconfiguration, of mourning and rejoicing, of noise and peace. Kreis Plön is about geolocation. It’s about probable fiction and looking for bits of different puzzles that fit together. An exercise in linear and perpendicular coherence devoid of any objective logic. 

In the middle of the album an artist is envisioning his place in the Now, questioning how or when he got there, as he links memories to imaginary places, and real places to imaginary histories. Kreis Plön stands as such a masterpiece that bluntly envisions the future of electronic music.

Klinker

Serge 606

LP out july 21st 2017
Limited to 500 LPs

2nd album from Danish synth-improv duo Videodrones, dives deeper their brand of throbbing synth themes from the goriest movies that never was. 
 
It’s easy to hear the starting point of Videodrones: From italian composers such as Fabio Frizzi, Marcello Giombini, Riz Ortolani - or even Morricone & Alessandroni at their most industrial. But Videodrones adds a touch of previously unheard madness to their Giallo-themed synth-gasms. Based largely on improvisation, Videodrones tosses and turns - it’s like the thing is ALIVE: leaving slimy trail of electronic musical styles in their wake: there’s toxic levels of italio disco, german kosmiche musik, new age, even some stabs at holy grails of 70’s and 80’s pop. The record culminates in a Synth-proto-doom track - Nattens Hævn (Revenge of the Night): too weird to live, yet too rare to die.
 
Videodrones improvisations are far from boring: chopped into smaller bits the album is of a suite-like nature - keeping the odd, jagged energy of improvisation, every part adds to a whole, larger narrative. The result is a suite-like walkthru, often changing pace, dropping notes or drifting in scale. The images Videodrones convey is collectedly strangely solemn - almost uplifting at times, in their maddening state of constant synth flux.

Videodrones: A Blade In Your Mind

Impressionistic Boogaloo

from the Richie Records Summer Singles Series, coming out Summer 2017

Live in Philadelphia:
Thursday July 27
@ Kung Fu Necktie
w/ Writhing Squares & Hothead

DAVID KENNETH NANCE - Amethyst (Fucked)

from the Trendees cassette Barmaid b/w Flat tac on a mooney night

www.albertsbasement.net

The Trendees Barmaid

from "Abraham's Sausage Pot" CS
moonglyph.com/releases/mg92

Henry the Rabbit - "Conjunction Day"

Bones is track #5 off of Lazlo Hollyfeld's 2nd release "The Pacer EP"

Bones

Rolling Mass is Carolyn Schofield (Fia Fiell) and Max Kohane.

Debut 12" EP now out on Brain Dead Records and available from the bandcamp link below.